Equine Experiential Learning 

 Equine Experiential Learning, EEL, is a format that uses horses as active participants that help to facilitate the learning experience for the human participants. By examining horse behavior, and how the horses relate to us, we can better understand what may be more effective in our own human relationships.

The equine-assisted model helps individuals learn about themselves and others by participating in activities with the horses and then debrief feelings, behaviors, and patterns, recognizing how these may relate to the workplace or at home. While EEL is related to other experiential programs, equine assisted programs have the added element of horse life skills and knowledge with as many different personalities and attitudes as the humans they are working with.  The horses provide an amazingly clear and non-judgmental level of feedback and mirroring to each participant; we just don’t get this kind of feedback from other humans since information goes through our own human “filters” of past experience.  Horses simply don’t do this; they are ever present in each current interaction.

Why Horses? 

Domesticated horses retain the thought and behavior patterns of their nomadic ancestors.  Interacting with these animals on their own terms encourages a fluidity of human thought, emotion, and behavior that sedentary twenty-first-century life makes difficult.  Horses also model the strengths of what are often referred to as “feminine values”: cooperation over competition, relationship over territory, responsiveness over strategy, emotion and intuition over logic, process over goal, and the creative approach to life that these qualities engender.

The first two days provide the inner journey into self-awareness; personal breakthroughs that provide the leadership tools and leadership skills rarely found in other leadership intensives.

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